All-Star Comics #49 is an issue of the series All-Star Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of October, 1949.
Synopsis for Justice Society of America: "The Invasion of the Fire People"
The Justice Society must fight a race of Fire People from a comet, who intend to rob Earth of its radium and inadvertently wipe humanity off the face of the planet.
Appearing in Justice Society of America: "The Invasion of the Fire People"
Featured Characters:
- Justice Society of America
- Atom
- Black Canary I
- Doctor Mid-Nite
- Flash I
- Green Lantern
- Hawkman
- Template:Apn
Supporting Characters:
- Dr. Grover Conrad
Antagonists:
- Fire People
- Kmago
- Kurdo
- Nkasi
- Xlki
- Xtok
- Xzox
- Yrni
- Zbat
- Zbtor
Other Characters:
- Agnar Akman (Flashback only)
- Bill
- Ekar (Flashback only)
- Everett
- General Hastings
- J.B. Elroy
- Kyris (Flashback only)
- Modr (Flashback only)
- Obnar (Flashback only)
- Professor Mangin
- Yagoth (Flashback only)
Locations:
- Earth-Two
- Exactly 1 million years prior 1949 AD (Flashback only)
- An advanced atomic civilization
- 1949
- United States of America
- Civic City
- CCT-TV Studio
- Dr. Conrad's Mountaintop Retreat
- Desert, Southwest
- Five Lakes Hospital, Midwest
- Palomina University Physics Lab, Far West
- Thor Uranium Mining and Refining Company, New England
- Civic City
- United States of America
- Exactly 1 million years prior 1949 AD (Flashback only)
Items:
- Asbestos suits
- Bracelets of Submission
- Carbon-arc Projectors
- Carnotite
- Cyclotron
- Daily Press
- Ether
- Gold leaf electroscope
- Green Flame of Life Power Ring
- Lasso of Truth
- Lead-Lined Suits
- Telesenders
- Mercury-in-glass thermometer
- Nth Metal Wings
- Pitchblende
- Radium
- Radium Gun
- Robot Tabulator
- Uranium
- Uranium oxide
- Wonder Woman's Tiara
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "Larry Minter Was Innocent"
Appearing in "Larry Minter Was Innocent"
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Notes
- Hawkman wears a mask instead his winged helmet in this issue.
- Atom wears his second uniform in this issue. In this point of time, there is no explanation behind this garment. All-Star Squadron Annual Vol 1 2 retcons this uniform as a homage to Cyclotron, from who Atom gained his atomic powers.
Trivia
- Through mental radios, JSA makes a videoconference, perhaps the first in the world.
- This is little remembered, but the original Black Canary died due to a cancer by concentrated radiation exposure of villain Aquarius. In this issue she also receives radiation from Fire People, but without side effects.
- In carbon-arc welding a carbon electrode is used to produce an electric arc between the electrode and the materials being bonded. This arc produces temperatures in excess of 3,000 °C. At this temperature the separate metals form a bond and become welded together. The fire creatures were supposed to produce heat below this temperature, in such a way that the heat of the carbon arc (or greater) was precisely their weakness.
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